1·And others of their kind: it should be noted that Machiavelli mixes historical and literary figures somewhat indiscriminately here from his readings of the Old Testament, Livy, Plutarch, and Xenophon.
以及其他像他们这般的人物：应该提到在这里马基雅维里随意的把历史人物和文学人物混为一谈了，在他读旧约，李维，普鲁塔克，以及色诺芬的时候。
2·Reviving a wheeze of the Greek historian Plutarch, he has written a parallel life with another Washington cold-war policymaker and contemporary of Kennan’s, Paul Nitze (1907-2004).
他借用了希腊历史家普鲁塔克的伎俩，他写文章讲述了另外一位与凯南同时代的华盛顿冷战决策者保罗尼采（1907-204）与之相似的一生。
3·Measure the standard of life is to see whether it has a meaning, not to see how long it is. - Plutarch.
衡量人生的标准是看其是否有意义；而不是看其有多长。——普鲁塔克。
4·Plutarch also recorded a number of physical characteristics about the pneuma.
普鲁塔克还记录了灵气的一些物理性质。
5·He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself — Plutarch, Greek historian and biographer.
指责别人没有教养的人，自己同样缺乏教养- - -普鲁塔克，希腊历史学家和传记作家。